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Most of us know what virtual machines are but for those don't know, virtual machines are the kind of software that allow users to run other operating system within current operating system. It's the favorite for everyone to taste other operating systems without going away from main operating system. In this article I'll show you how to installPicture VM VirtualBox 5.0 in Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/Linux mint Rafaela or other derivatives.

Batch image processors are often underrated and don't get the attention they deserve. But this type of software is worth getting familiar with. With batch image processing, a user can select a size or file type, and then convert all the selected images. This way, hundreds or thousands of images can be processed with just a few clicks. Unfortunately, there are not that many tools that do batch conversion really well. But these four tools save loads of time and effort.

Two weeks after RC1 the second Release Candidate for Kodi 15.0 codenamed Isengard has been released and contains many improvements/bug fixes.

In this blog post we will show you how to install the Mezzanine CMS on a Debian 8 VPS. Mezzanine is open source content management system built using the Django framework. Some of the main features include: Blog engine, Shopping cart module, User accounts and profiles, In-line page editing ..etc.

'Core quality' the focus of latest preview build. Microsoft has released a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile, the version of the new OS for phones, and it has the same build number as the current version for desktop PCs.…

Today the KDE team announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.12.0. This release contains many bug fixes, many updates to the Plasma Framework, the kwallet-query command-line tool was imported for the KWallet Framework, and various other changes.

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Project Ascension's new user interface, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for July 4 - 11, 2015 read more

I had the pleasure of interviewing Rosaria Silipo about her upcoming talk at OSCON: Advanced analytics for the Internet of Things. I recently taught a group of librarians about Internet of Things and how we can use it to provide better services to our patrons, so when I saw Rosaria's talk summary I thought it was right up my alley. read more

You often hear that Linux will only become mainstream when more proprietary software is ported to Linux. Like the two characters waiting for Godot, thousands of people are apparently waiting for the day Microsoft Office or Photoshop releases a Linux version and demolishes its free-licensed rivals. Against all reason, the expectation persists.

OpenELEC launched a version of a WeTek media player preloaded with Kodi-ready OpenELEC Linux, and a choice of DVB-S2, DVB-C/T/T2, or ATSC broadcast tuners. The WeTek OpenELEC (Limited Edition) Linux media player is an OpenELEC-optimized version of the Android-based WeTek Play media player, which typically offers OpenELEC Linux as one of its alternative downloads. The […]

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), a software which allows Linux users to run Windows applications, has reached version 1.7.47, bringing changes such as text drawing support in Direct2D or the introduction of an implementation for HID (Human Interface Devices).

Mozilla has rolled out a new version of its Firefox browser, an update that includes patches for four critical security vulnerabilities and several less-severe bugs. IN all, Firefox 39 patches 13 vulnerabilities, including two high-risk bugs and six moderate-level ones. The most dangerous vulnerabilities, however, include a pair of use-after-free bugs in one part of the browser and another in a separate component, as well as a number of memory corruption flaws.

2 Months after the Beta 3 release Oracle has announced that Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 is available today. The guest OS performance has been improved by leveraging built-in virtualization support. The 5.0 release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.

Just when you thought you were safe, a new hacking toy comes along and rocks your world. Imagine a tool exists that lets hackers pluck encryption keys from your laptop right out of the air. You can't stop it by connecting to protected Wi-Fi networks or even disabling Wi-Fi completely. Turning off Bluetooth also won't help you protect yourself.

Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub—he's encouraging the use of open source philosophies in government entities. Prior to joining GitHub, he was a fellow in the Office of the U.S. Chief Information Officer within the executive office of the President................

Google has reduced spam reaching inboxes to a fraction of a percent, but in the process sometimes misclassifies bulk-mailed messages like monthly statements and ticket receipts. It's a big problem for large bulk emailers of legitimate messages. To deal with it, Google has created a toolset to help those mailers figure out what's happening to their messages.

Many companies, including leading corporations and financial institutions, think that a website is just a "webpage" in the middle of nowhere, without much value for them or for the hackers. They think that a hacked website can be quickly and easily repaired, and nobody will ever remember the incident. They are seriously wrong.

This week's Top 5 looks at Linux in the military, text editors, text tools, document tools, and Python and Raspberry Pi for education.

Zuul is a software developed by the OpenStack community. It was developed as an efficient gated commit system, allowing projects to merge patches only after they pass a series of tests. It reduces the probability of breaking the master branch, for instance when unit tests or functional tests no longer pass on the tip of master.

The move makes good on an earlier statement by Angel Calvo, Microsoft's PowerShell Team Group Software Engineering Manager, that they won't be just adopting openSSH, they will also be contributing to it.